On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, maarten wrote: > On Friday 23 July 2004 16:27, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > > On Friday 23 July 2004 15.46, ITC-Hosting wrote: > > > We are currently running a Postfix[...] > > > > Since you're running postfix... <plug>you may want to have a look at > > greylisting - the postgrey package provides this </plug> > > > > Unfortunately, postfix 2.1 is required, so woody users will have to > > wait. Greylisting is a very resource-friendly way to limit spam - there > > is a small database of envelope sender/recpt and client IP addresses, > > and it shifts a small burden to the sending mailservers (they have to > > queue a few mail for a few moments longer than otherwise necessary), > > but it is rarely noticed by users at all. > > > So are there -for us poor woody users out there- any alternative means to > deploy greylisting ? For instance, does only postfix have greylisting or do > other MTAs have (or plan to have) greylisting ?
Fortunately, the package maintainer for Postfix, LaMont Jones, backports his work to stable, and the backports work quite well: deb http://people.debian.org/~lamont/woody-updates/ woody main deb http://people.debian.org/~lamont/woody-build-depends/ woody main -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
